Podcast: Simon Crosby – The Hypervisor Wars Are Over (part 1)

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Simon Crosby, CTO Virtualization at Citrix and formerly with Xen Source, joined me to record a podcast. This is a two part interview.

In part 1, I talk with Simon about how Xen is maintaining its integrity as an open source project used by many competitive vendors while Citrix owns Xen and obviously incorporates it into their own products. Simon’s goals with Xen are clear; to make the hypervisor a commodity across the industry so vendors have to differentiate in other areas. In Simon’s view, the war of the hypervisor is over, not only because Xen is used by Red Hat, Oracle, Sun and Citrix, but also because Hyper-V used Xen as its reference model. (Just to be clear, there isn’t any Xen code in Hyper-V.) I’m sure VMware will have their own take on that! We talk about many other things, including the approached used by Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.

If virtualization is on your radar screen (it’s on everybody’s, right?), this is a must listen to podcast.

Listen:

Enjoy, and please feel free to send me your comments, ideas and suggestions.

Related Links:

Citrix Virtualization CTO Disputes Red Hat Hypervisor Strategy

Red Hat Takes Hypervisor Control Back From Citrix

A Weekend With Hyper-V

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